Re: Choosing files
Re: Choosing files
- Subject: Re: Choosing files
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:43:30 -0800
- Thread-topic: Choosing files
On 1/31/06 12:15 PM, "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In OS 9 it was possible to write a command to choose file by type, and the
> user would only see appropriate files in the dialog.
>
> In Mac OS X I want to choose file by extension, not type.
>
> In one script the user needs to select only files that end with ".xml"
>
> In another the user needs to select only files that end with {".jpg", ".tif",
> ".TIFF", ".eps", ".pdf","psd"}
>
> Can this be done with standard additions?
You can see that the Dictionary now says (as of AS 1.10 in OS 10.4):
of type - a list of file types or type identifiers
The Release Notes for 1.10 confirm this:
"The of type parameter to the choose file command now accepts either a list
of file types or a list of type identifiers. [3226364]"
You can find [uniform] "type identifiers" supported in OS 10.4 here:
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/understanding_ut
is/>
Check both Table 3-1 and Table 3-3. (There were far fewer 3rd-party UTIs
supported in 10.3 but 'of type' won't work for UTIs in OS 10.3 anyway.)
You can't "mix and match" with 4-character file types; it's one or the
other.
All the types you ask for are there:
choose file of type {"public.xml"}
-- (This seems to include also files with a few other extensions than
.xml that are evidently XML files with proprietary extensions.)
choose file of type {"public.jpeg", "public.tiff", "com.adobe.pdf",
"com.adobe.encapsulated-‹postscript", "com.adobe.photoshop-‹image"}
There's also a "com.compuserve.gif" for .gif. And you'll find types for
Excel files, etc., etc.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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